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Bedlington has a brand new shiny set of (hamster?) wheels! More accurately: precious milliseconds of our lives are now being saved by a new state-of-the-art server. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen to the old machine now the plug has been pulled. Maybe it should be retired to a computer museum alongside my Teletype 33 and paper tape reader?

Keep clicking on them, and we might be able to afford a new pot of paint soon! Actually, Google isn't too bright, it keeps feeding me ads for English language courses all in foreign lingo! Ciao!

A Remainer's lament: Give that person a medal! Nuff said.

All the official stuff on the incident focuses on polyurethane insulation and the possibility of an inflammable plastic back cover having helped the fire spread, but there's a curious silence about the refrigerant used. One wonders if we will ever get the full truth here when EU legislation now permits the use of highly flammable refrigerants for "green" reasons - which are of course under pressure. This particular model must be at least eight and possibly over ten years old. If refrigerant ignition was in any way involved it seems vital that extra inspections and life tests are made on the pressure systems of fridges using this type of refrigerant. So, it's a matter of vital public interest to know a ) what type of refrigerant is involved here? ; b ) did it contribute to the fire at all? ; c ) was possible refrigerant ignition the start of the fire or just a secondary effect? Without this information being put clearly into the public domain focusing on a particular make or model is a bit of a red herring.

I was looking up the names of the Lavery parents in Ashington in order to answer your question; though, it sadly seems that those rumors were right after all: Ian didn't have a known father!

You'll probably need to ask Macron to ask his teacher! P.S. That baby looks like a future Prime Minister to me!

Sign Your Support: Jacob Rees-Mogg For Leader And Prime Minister! Yes, maybe I do - so long as I don't actually have to vote Conservative!

...and actually far more difficult than the woman on the right! DUP MPs threaten to walk away from deal to prop up Theresa May's minority Government on eve of Queen's Speech ..but she won't! Probably!

This has practically nothing to do with Grenfell Tower, and any excuse would have done. They are trying to capitalist on the fact that May is unlikely to have the guts of a Margaret Thatcher. This is all building into something very ugly, and way beyond Corbyn's ability to control, and there's the obvious fact that the people Corbyn has gathered around him don't want him to be able to control it.

Corbyn backers spread fake news about Grenfell Tower as Johnson blasts 'political games' Seems you are right moe! I've long suspected that Corbyn is simply being used by Marxists as a benevolent-looking front. He has obvious appeal for hand-wringing liberals and the politically naive. Whatever.. he's clearly incapable of controlling the people behind him who want nothing less than to overturn our democracy. The crazy thing is that virtually the entire PLP are going along with this charade. They need to read a bit of history and discover what happened to the moderate people who thought they were taking a free ride on Stalinism and Nazism!

Doesn't seem too far away for the truth to me!

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As the politicos would tell you "it's a dynamic situation", so you always run that risk!

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Which smile is genuine: Mrs May pictured with our PM.

I heard that they are very close to agreement, and it's all rather painless. It's agreed that Nigel Farage will become chief EU negotiator, and that Downing Street will be relocated brick by brick to Belfast; but the current sticking point is exactly how many Trident missiles are to be re-targeted at The Vatican.

Which party will that be? You can't have the Living in a Big Way (on credit) Party - that one belongs to (the other) McDon.

There's nothing wrong with Gove; he should have been in the original cabinet instead of the incompetent Hammond. In Remonian terms he's a hard Brexiteer, as indeed your poster boy McDonnell has just come out as!

Wow, I didn't know Philip May was a "trillionaire"! This is too hung up on current events so try a generalisation... Actually they won't get it... because any region with sentient people will also form at least one cross-traditional-party alliance and preferably multiple alliances, and they will offer their votes to form a government on a competitive basis too. Yes, it's horsetrading but that's how things work anyway, just not on such an above board and refined basis. It's pretty much were Labour's devolution is already tugging us, though like much coming out of the left the implications weren't properly considered (Umm... SNP!). It also has parallels in much of Europe. National party orientated FPTP hasn't exactly worked swimmingly for the NE over the last century has it, and there are huge problems with all forms of PR.

Problem noted. Thanks!

It's looking more certain by the hour - the Tories are currently talking themselves into it!

The Ulster DUP I think. They are now in pole position to dictate the handling of the Irish border, and to demand more economic aid. In our FPTP system being a party that has a regional concentration gives you massive leverage. Has the North East the sense to form such a party, and of course the voters in the North East the horse sense to support it? @bluebarby Life provides you with many opportunities to make your own "fair" - if you can be ar**d!

One of the major reasons May is in the mess she is today I think. By not triggering Article 50 (or what Ukip wanted, simply repealing the Parliament Act) within days, or a few weeks at most, she allowed people like Blair and Mandleson to start maneuvering behind the scenes to undermine the vote, and of course the execrable Gina Miller to launch her legal challenge in front of EUrophile judges who are still mainly on the Brussels teat. A whole long list of other mistakes followed, including appointing totally the wrong person as chancellor. It all goes back to Dodgy Dave and his duplicity though, but that's water well under the bridge now!

So... we'll be taking bookings for it on Bedlington.co.uk before too long? It will be interesting to see the rates.